Peregrine Systems, one of the world`s leading software companies, has introduced Xanadu, a breakthrough IT asset management appliance designed specifically for the small to medium enterprise (SME) market.
Designed to serve as a company`s "next IT employee", Peregrine`s new solution will make it possible to deliver sophisticated IT asset management services with a rapid return on investment to smaller companies and departments of large organisations.
Gartner notes: "The SME market for IT products and services is enormous and the addressable opportunity for IT solutions is significant. Gartner estimates that there are more than eight million SMEs in the US alone and these companies are projected to spend more than $125 billion in 2001 on IT and telecommunications." *
"The most significant impediment to technology advancement and optimisation among small and mid-size businesses is lack of resources and skills. As a result, their primary criteria for selecting IT products and services, such as systems management solutions, are ease of implementation and maintenance," says Mika Krammer, Gartner research director, Small and Midsize Products.
"Through 2002, SMEs will focus their technology spending on security and solutions that can help them realise enhanced functionality and operational efficiency at a reasonable cost, as they make attempts to rationalise the infrastructure and systems that they already have."
Packaged as an appliance and delivered as a service, Peregrine`s Xanadu represents an innovation in IT asset management. It is the first self-installing, self-detecting, no-maintenance appliance which offers asset discovery, asset tracking and incident reporting capabilities, coupled with Web-delivered employee self service. Xanadu continuously identifies, monitors and manages an organisation`s entire IT network, providing easily understandable, comprehensive views of all vital assets - network, desktop and mobile devices - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In addition, Xanadu features a user-friendly Web portal, which enables employees at client organisations to report incidents quickly and easily via the Internet. Xanadu is designed to be fully operational within days of installation, accelerating time to productivity for organisations using it at an unprecedented rate.
"The ability to manage IT assets effectively, including complex networks and mobile devices has by and large been available only to bigger companies," says Allen Lewis, GM for Peregrine Systems at sole local distributor MGX.
"Xanadu changes that, creating a revolutionary approach to identifying, tracking and managing IT assets, while providing full employee self-service in an intuitive way. This functionality will help eliminate significant frictional costs in managing the IT assets of mid-size organisations."
Small and mid-size companies have followed the enterprise sector in becoming progressively more dependent on their underlying network and IT infrastructure. These companies, however, typically have too little time, money and expertise to manage these proliferating IT assets adequately.
To meet the demands of the SME market, Peregrine has created and launched its Xanadu Business Group to build and expand strategic relationships in the indirect sales channel.
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MGX is a JSE Securities Exchange-listed listed information technology organisation headquartered in Johannesburg, employing 2 754 people. MGX`s mission is to deliver world-class technologies through its strategic relationships with leading international technology suppliers, using its own intellectual property in the form of established methodologies, best practices, business models and software. The company defines its business space and its value proposition offered to clients in terms of three key strategic requirements - improving enterprise performance, containing business costs and reducing business risk.
In turn, MGX has focused its activities into the following five business value domains that comprehensively address these concerns: storage management, business availability management, content management, enterprise value management and software development.
These domains are offered by operating divisions MGX Storage Solutions, MGX Enterprise Solutions, MGX Content Management and MGX Business Continuity Solutions, with Software Futures delivering packaged and turnkey software solutions. These business units have strong functional and operational synergies in developing and integrating solutions for clients. The company`s client base is sourced from the top 200 companies in SA.
MGX has operations in SA, Botswana, Australia, the UK and the US. During its five-year history as a listed company it has delivered consistent growth to shareholders. For more information, visit www.mgxgroup.com.
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